🌌 A Still Paath Reflection on Trusting the Unknown

 

🌲 The Forest Knows Where You Are

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🌌 When the Path Disappears

“How do you know you’re on your path?”

Because it vanishes.

No signposts.

No certainty.

No applause.

Just the quiet unraveling of who you thought you were.

You look around and realize:

what you leaned on — titles, plans, identities — have faded into the mist.

There’s fear in that moment.

But also truth.

That’s when you know:

You are walking your soul’s path.

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🛑 The Urge to Escape

Our instincts scream:

“Do something! Fix this! Go back!”

But deeper wisdom — older, slower — offers another way.

A voice of the forest.

A voice of the elder within you.

“Stand still.

The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost.

Stand still.

The forest knows where you are.

You must let it find you.”

These words invite us into a sacred pause.

Stillness is not passivity — it is alignment.

Not an escape — but an arrival.

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🌿 Stand Still: A Medicine in Disguise

When we feel lost, we think we need direction.

But what we often need is reconnection.

Wherever you are is called here.

And here must be treated as a powerful stranger.

This is not about being dramatic or philosophical.

It’s deeply practical.

Standing still means:

• Listening to your breath before making a decision.

• Feeling grief instead of suppressing it.

• Not forcing clarity in moments of confusion.

• Trusting that you are not forgotten, even if you feel unseen.

Because — the forest knows where you are.

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🦉 Paying Attention to What We’ve Abandoned

Stillness reveals what movement hides.

When we pause, we begin to notice:

• The parts of ourselves we gave away to feel “safe”

• The creative gifts we buried under responsibility

• The joy we traded for approval

• The inner child we silenced for productivity

The Elder’s voice reminds us:

“Pay attention.

Not just to what you love,

but also to what you’ve abandoned.”

This is how we reclaim ourselves — not through striving,

but through seeing.

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🤫 Silence: The Forgotten Superpower

The second gift in this teaching is silence.

“If what a tree or a branch does is lost on you,

then you are surely lost.”

Without silence, your inner noise takes over.

The ego, the doubt, the fear…

a hundred voices telling you why you shouldn't change, grow, risk, feel.

But in stillness — silence becomes a doorway.

You begin to hear again:

• The whisper of intuition

• The sound of your soul breathing

• The memory of what really matters

🌌 “Unless you have silence in your body,

you will be too frightened to hear real change calling.”

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🐚 The Forest is a Mirror

This isn’t about trees and branches alone.

This is about the inner forest.

The wild, sacred place within you

that cannot be mapped — only remembered.

“No two trees are the same to Raven.

No two branches are the same to Wren.”

To nature, everything is uniquely alive.

But to us — blurred by distraction — we forget to see.

This teaching reminds us:

Every moment, like every tree, is unrepeatable.

Every breath is sacred.

Every feeling has its own root and leaf.

🌱 If you rush past it, you miss the invitation.

If you stand still, it will find you.

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🌊 Grief Has Roots Too

Sometimes, we do feel grief.

About our job.

Our relationships.

Our lost dreams.

Our aging.

But grief, too, is a teacher — not a punishment.

“You don’t really know what’s underneath your grief

until you fall into it.”

We try to “move on” too fast.

We label sadness as weakness.

But maybe, in the forest of the soul, grief is a map.

Let it open you.

Let it soften you.

Let it show you what is still alive inside.

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✨ Let It Find You

The final teaching is the most tender.

“The forest knows where you are.

You must let it find you.”

In Zen, they say:

“If you go out and confirm the 10,000 things — that is delusion.

But if the 10,000 things come and confirm you — that is enlightenment.”

Let life come toward you.

Let love reach you.

Let stillness awaken you.

You are not the seeker.

You are the space being sought.

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🌕 A Still Paath Reminder

You do not have to “figure it all out.”

You do not have to rush.

You do not have to force clarity or change.

Just stand still.

Be where you are.

Feel what’s true.

Because the forest —

your soul, your truth, your source —

knows exactly where you are.

Let it find you.

With silence & breath,

Still Paath

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